Thread: World Record Red Deer!!!!......according to an American

Originally Posted by phillipgr

This is why the trophy hunting game seems a bit silly to me. Here is a hunter who has never hunted even in the country where the trophy was taken, she hasn't spent any time map hunting, doing recces or learning the lay of the land, and the animal is taken from a place where there is little (or no) hunting pressure. The quality of a trophy says little about the quality of the hunter under these circumstances - so who is the record holder then?

I like the way trophy hunting spurs hunters on to becoming highly skilled as to hunt an intelligent animal that "didn't get big by being dumb" but the head alone can't determine how hard it is to hunt the animal.

I would be more proud of myself as a hunter if I took a 10pt off heavily hunted public land than I would if I shot the animal in the video above.

Just my 2c and nothing against trophy hunters at all.

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Very well said mate. Trophy hunting in itself isn't a dirty word depending on what you want out of it. My motto has always been that a trophy isn't measured in inches.

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

Very well said mate. Trophy hunting in itself isn't a dirty word depending on what you want out of it. My motto has always been that a trophy isn't measured in inches.

Exactly. Thats something a love about hunting - you can't cheat it. The satisfaction I get from making a kill is directly related to the difficulty. Nothing can buy me the satisfaction, the only way to get it is to put in the hard yards. If I pay for an easy kill, it just won't be the same.

As Rushy put it to me "every time I don't get one, I invest equity into the next time I do get one"

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